Immigration
Temporary towns built on the edge of cities were known as this.
What are Hoovervilles?
This term describes Woodrow Wilson before and after World War I.
What is isolationist?
This political party identified issues that needed to be addressed during the era of the Progressives.
What is the Populist Party?
The use of these contributed to the enormous loss of life during World War I.
What are new weapons?
This, meaning 'to adapt to a new way of life,' was required of immigrants to the United States.
What is assimilation?
Immigrants formed these because they were not accepted elsewhere.
What are ethnic neighborhoods? (Little Italy, Chinatown)
"Remember the Maine" was a battle cry used during this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This term refers to journalists who wrote about social evils.
What are muckrakers?
The United States annexed this territory after securing its independence from Spain as a result of the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippines?
This term, meaning 'to break up a monopoly,' is associated with President Theodore Roosevelt.
What is trust-busting?
Labor shortages in industrial cities caused this wave of movement across the country.
What is the Great Migration?
The defense of this Russian city marked a turning point in World War II.
What is Stalingrad?
Alice Paul and the National Women's Party worked to give women this right.
What is the vote?
The successful Communist revolution in Russia contributed to this event in 1920s America.
What is the Red Scare?
This is the name used to refer to October 29, 1929: the day the stock market crashed in a great wave of selling.
What is Black Tuesday?
Between 1880 and 1920, European immigrants came to the United States at this location.
What is Ellis Island?
This was the government project involved in developing the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
Safety net programs designed to help the nation's neediest people are part of this program introduced by President Franklin Roosevelt.
What is the New Deal?
Access to trade with this country was a motivating factor in U.S. expansionism.
What is China?
This process increased the citizen's political power by ensuring party candidates were chosen by party members.
What is a primary?
This is a kind of immigrant who is fleeing something to save their lives.
What are refugees?
This term refers to exaggerated news reports written to encourage sympathy for Cuba in their fight for independence.
What is yellow journalism?
Mary Harris Jones led the fight against this.
What is child labor?
These two Japanese cities were destroyed by atomic bombs in World War II.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The National Grange helped this industry.
What is farming?